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THE YOUNG 



NATUEALIST. 



wish to illustrate say one genus, then 

 put in all the species — all the titmice 

 for instance ; but for our own part we 

 would rather see them in small cases, 

 and arranged side by side. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



All communications to be sent to J. E. Eobson, Eellerby 

 Terrace, West Hartlepool ; or to S. L. Mosley Beau- 

 mont Park, Huddersfield. 



P.T.D. — Your query shall be replied to in 

 an article next week. 



H.T.R. — Your Clausilia is Rugosa. 



D.A. — Several of the monthly parts can no 

 longer be supplied for want of covers, but 

 all the back numbers are in print, and can 

 be had from our present publishers, or 

 direct from ourselves. 



R.T.S. — No, we do not think Stamp collect- 

 ing a childish pursuit, unless it be followed 

 in a childish manner. We know a little 

 about stamps, and shall be glad to name 

 any sent to us, or reply to queries; but 

 such enquiries must contain a stamped 

 directed envelope for reply. We cannot 

 reply in this column. 



EXCHANGE. 



Duplicates, — Larvae of Agrotis ripa. 

 Desiderata. — Perfect specimens of other 

 local specimens, especially Pyrales. -Gervase 

 T. Mathew, Instow, N. Devon. 



Duplicates.— H. levxojthearia ; H. Aur- 

 antiaria, H. progemmaria, and H defoUaria, 

 with females ; M. rubiginata and P. CM, 

 Desiderata numerous. — John Firth, 88. 

 Woodlands Road, Manningham, Bradford. 



NOTES, CAPTURES, &c. 



On Saturday last I took eight fine speci- 

 mens of P. chi, at rest on tree trunks ; seven 

 of which were the dark variety, Olivacea, but 

 not having any boxes I had to carry them 

 home in my hat, which did not improve 

 their condition. It was raining heavily all 

 the time, and has been for some weeks here 



more or less.— G. F. Miller, Gateshead. 



Wild Swans near Birmingham. — The 

 following is an extract from a Birmingham 

 paper of the 8th inst. : — " On the ist of Sep- 

 tember, a farmer shot out of a flock of five' 

 a magnificent specimen of that exceedingly 

 rare and valuable bird the Polish Swan 

 (Cygnus immutabilis), at Solihull. This 

 species is exremely rare, even as an Euro- 

 pean species, and one fact in connection with 

 the species is that the young of this bird 

 never change colour or become grey as in 

 all the other species of swan, but are always 

 in the white plumage. The young of the 

 ordinary kinds in their grey plumage, are 

 designated Cygnets : the plumage of this 

 bird is as its name implies immutable. The 

 specimen has been passed into the already 

 magnificent collection of Mr. R. W. Chase, 

 of Edgbaston Road."— P. T. Deakin, Bir- 

 mingham. 



Late Nesting. — Mr. Dale tells me he 

 flushed a Partridge from her nest in the 

 middle of August. It was on the railway 

 side, and contained eggs. About the same 

 time Mr. J. J. Cambridge found a Yellow- 

 bunting's nest, with two fresh eggs ; next day 

 it had three. These seem unusually late. — 

 John E. Robson. 



Pupa of S. Ligustri. — I had a larva of 

 the Privet Hawk (5. ligustri), that went into 

 the earth to pupate about the middle of 

 August. Is not this early, for " Merrin's 

 Calender " gives the month for the pupa as 

 October ? — A. Davis, Great Marlow, Bucks. 

 [Merrin will perhaps mean that all should 

 have pupated by October, but in our copy 

 of his "Calendar" this species is not 

 given under any month as being in pupa, 

 except in the index. They generally com- 

 mence to go down in August. — Eds. Y.N.] 



Captures in the Isle of Wight. — 

 During a short stay in the Isle of Wight, in 

 the early part of August, I took specimens 

 of the following butterflies : — Clouded 

 Yellow (C.edusa), Walls (8. megcera) t Gray- 



